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Showing posts with label virtual desktops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual desktops. Show all posts

Friday, March 1, 2013

Atlantis Computing handles virtual desktops' persistent data in RAM

Atlantis Computing this week launched a version of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software that speeds performance and reduces storage requirements for persistent virtual desktops.

Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 runs as a virtual machine (VM) inside local server memory, and creates and delivers persistent desktops within that server RAM. The ILIO virtual desktops are registered and created as network file system, or NFS, data stores for provisioning by Citrix Systems Inc.'s XenDesktop and VMware Inc.'s View desktop virtualization platforms.

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Monday, February 25, 2013

GreenBytes launches virtual appliance to reduce storage for VDI

GreenBytes is rolling out a virtual appliance version of its IO Offload Engine hardware device built to store virtual desktop images more efficiently and transmit them faster.

VIO is software that runs inside VMware Inc.'s ESXi hypervisor. It offloads virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) swap disk and operating system I/O to flash storage, such as PCI Express cards, local solid-state storage disk, or networked storage solid-state storage controllers.

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Friday, February 15, 2013

U.S. Army conquers virtualized desktop challenges with hybrid tiers

To give its doctors more time to treat patients, the U.S. Army is converting its desktop health care patient record application system to a virtual desktop infrastructure.

The project takes advantage of tiered storage with RAM, solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard drives. It includes NetApp storage arrays, Atlantis Computing's ILIO Diskless virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage optimization software, Hewlett-Packard (HP) blade servers with SSDs, and Citrix Systems' XenDesktop and XenApp software to virtualize desktops and applications.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Nimble Storage hybrid array improves law firm's VDI performance

When traditional spinning disk arrays came up short on performance for its virtual desktop infrastructure, Minneapolis-based law firm Lindquist & Vennum switched to a hybrid array from Nimble Storage Inc.

The Nimble Storage hybrid array's solid-state drives (SSDs) provide enough performance for the company's 350 persistent virtual desktops, as well as other applications.

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